The Penn's Grove record., 1887-01-29
NEWSOF THE WEEK.

While coasting at Wellsvllle, Ohio,
a sled containing a number of boys coll
llded with a farmers wagon, and Ebert
Dowan. Fred Turnbull and his brother
were seriously injured. Boys on another
sled steeTed it over the hill to avoid a
collision. Joe Davidson struck the
frozen ground on his head and ruptured
a blood vessel. lie is in a precarious
condition.
Three persons named Litherly,
father, mother md daughter, were
poisoned by eating canned corned beef
in Eliot, Maine, on the evening of the
goth, and they were in a critical con-
dition On the 21st,
Dennis McGurl, proprietor of a
soap factory, in Chicago, his son, Den
mis-, Jr., and five of his employees Au-
gust Henry, Alfred King, Farrell
O'Reilly, John Raglan and Thomas
Sullivan-were arrested on the goth,
on the charge of stealing hogs
from trains on the Chicago and North
western Railroad. 1t Is asserted that
no fewer than $500 hogs, valued at over
SIS, 600, have been stolen during the
last two years. for use in McGurl's fac
| lOI1s IN pan VI IOODCl1 was W
board a stock train at a railroad cross
ing or other stopping point, and, enter
ing one of the cars, remain there until
the train was under Roadway. Opening
the door of the car, three or four hogs
could be thrown off in short order and
unobserved, aud the thieves would
themselves alight. The country through
which the road passes on the western
outskirts of the city IS SO deserted that
the scheme was never exposed until the
detectives had worked upon the case
f r some time" The store of Lisle and
Price, at Beebe, Arkansas, vas robbed
of $1,000 in currency and a number of
valuable papers on the 2Uth. Two
young men who slept vel the store
heard the burglars and attempted to
drive them off, but were forced upstairs
into their rooms and locked in.
The wife of Vaclav Cobalek, in
Cleveland, Ohio, Oh the morning of
the Goth, killed three of her children
and mertally wounded two others,
using shears for tie purpose. She
then hanged herself in the cellar. She
had shown had temper at breakfast.
Her husband is said to be a drunkard.
Tie poll e think she vas insane.
"A man walked into the Office of
the Collector of customs in New York
on the Dist. handed the Collector a
sealed envelope and disappeared. The
envelope contained $40 IN bills and the
following vote: Enclosed please find
the sum of $40, which | lave been
requested to place IN your hands as a
contribution to the Conscience Fund"
No name was signed.
Thursday afternoon the 10th, a
party of boys, playing on an open lot
in Jersey City, adjoining the yards of
the Delaware, Lackawana and Western
Railroad Company, began to lout and
ieer at the Pinkerton men on guard.
and, finally, encouraged 10y the strikers,
threw snow balls and other missiles at
the detectives. The Pinkerton leader
ordered the boys to stop, but they did
not obey, and three shots were fired
from a revolver. Thomas Hogan, aged
l6 years, a looker-on, fell dead. Four
men, Patrick Sheehy, Daniel Cahill,
Samuel A. Neff and Murphy Moriarty.
have been arrested for the shooting.
-Silas Phllbrick and his wife have
just died at Stevens Point, Wisconsin,
from trichinosis, caused by eating dis.
eased pork.
The boiler of a saw mill near Wash
Ington, Indiana, exploded on the goth,
killing three men. BY the bursting of
a fly wheel in the South Chicago Roll
ing Mill, at Chicago. on the goth, five
men we're dangerously injured and one
was killed. The boiler of the grain
elevator at Newport News, Virginia,
burst on the afternoon Of the Goth,
killing Samuel Robinson and ipjuring
four other men.
john McLane and Patrick Aber-
deem were murdered at a ranch near
Hudson, New Mexico, a few days ago.
Robbery was the object of the MUIR
derers. Arthur Miller and Miles Wal
lace were cred upon by three assassins
from Ambush near Murfreesboro, Ar
kansas, on the 10Th. Miller was shot
dead and Wallace, who rode away, is
supposed to be MORALLY wounded.
William E. Meade, ~ years of age, was
shot dead by two unknown men while
standing in front of his fathers store
i'll White Plans. New York, on the
evening of the Goth. After the shoot J
.irS, the men. who were both young,
jumped into a sleigh and drove off.
Having mistaken their road, they re-
turned to the village, and, resisting ar
rest, were shot dead by the Chief of
Police.
"A telegram from Detroit SAYS: SIN
formation of another of Ex-Governor
II. A. Ayers extensive berevolences
has just leaked out through The fuel
and -four dealers who we're connected
with the enterprise. Through his
private secretary and a few trusted
friends, he found five hundred needy
families during the recent cold snap,
and to each of them was sent a barrel
of flour and a ton of coal or a cord of
wood. The scenes at the delivery of
the needed gifts were often pitlful and
pathetic, many of the families being
entirely destitute"
james Burke, employed at the
Columbia Rolling MIL. at Lancaster,
Penna., fell into the rollers OF the at
afternoon of the Goth, and was drawn
through twice. He died soon after.
A switch engine collided with an
express train at Poughkeepsie, New
York, on the morning Of the 2lst.
Alexander Coates, engineer, and Bar
ney Morgan, fireman, were danger
ouslY, If not fatally, injured. 4 coal
train on the Reading Railroad, on the
morning of the 2lst, ran into the rear
of a freight train, near Ph9nixville,
and ten cars were wrecked. The engi-
neer cf the coal train was asleep.
Forest ires have been raging near
Eureka Springs. Arkansas, for several
days. On the goth a fierce gale spread
the flames to the outskirts of the town
and burned two dwellings. Several
frame buildings were Blown down by
the wind.
1t is now believed that the two
burglars who killed William f. Mead
at White Plains, New York, On the
Goth, and were afterwards shot dead,